Right here on Bloody Disgusting we’ve revealed a number of articles (discover all of them right here) protecting *our* favourite horror motion pictures of final yr, nevertheless it’s all the time fascinating to check out year-in-review roundups from different locations as effectively. Letterboxd, for instance, kicks off every new yr by spotlighting the earlier yr’s prime hits, and their full 2024 Yr in Overview is now stay.
As all the time, movies are damaged up into numerous classes based mostly on highest person scores, together with the 10 Highest Rated Horror Films of 2024. That record is unsurprisingly topped by Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu, which simply barely grew to become a 2024 launch when it was unleashed in theaters on Christmas Day. Different movies, effectively, you could be shocked to see them make the record.
Listed here are Letterboxd’s 10 Highest Rated Horror Films of 2024:
- 1) Nosferatu
- 2) The Substance
- 3) Useless Abilities Society
- 4) Bramayugam
- 5) Chime
- 6) Alien: Romulus
- 7) Exhuma
- 8) I Noticed the TV Glow
- 9) Your Monster
- 10) Unusual Darling
If a couple of of those titles don’t sound acquainted to you, right here’s why. Useless Abilities Society is a Taiwanese horror-comedy that had its North American premiere on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition, however hasn’t truly been broadly launched right here in the US. Our personal Joe Lipsett gave the movie 4.5 stars in his overview for Bloody Disgusting, which you’ll be able to learn right here.
Bramayugam is an Indian Malayalam-language film, which equally hasn’t been launched within the States, whereas Chime is a 45-minute film from Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Remedy). The catch with that one? As the web site Polygon defined earlier this yr, “It’s terrifying, superbly made, and one in all the highlights of 2024 up to now, regardless of the style. The one drawback is that most individuals don’t know the film exists, or don’t know they’ll watch it, as a result of it’s solely accessible via a considerably difficult, NFT-inflected course of.”
Each Alien: Romulus and The Substance additionally made the record of the ten Highest Rated Sci-Fi Films, with The Substance coming within the #2 spot behind Dune: Half Two and Alien: Romulus discovering itself within the #5 spot. Netflix’s It’s What’s Inside got here in at #9 on that very same record, whereas Max’s M. Night time Shyamalan-produced Caddo Lake was the tenth film on the sci-fi record.
There’s additionally a “Most Well-liked General” record, with Coralie Fargeat’s Golden Globe-winning The Substance rating #3, Longlegs within the #6 spot, and Alien: Romulus taking the #8 spot.
You possibly can browse Letterboxd’s full 2024 Yr in Overview proper right here.
